# SocialFetch YouTube Channel Shorts Lister

> SocialFetch YouTube Channel Shorts Lister is a paid API for AI agents from api.socialfetch.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.014/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Lists YouTube Shorts (short-form vertical videos) from a specified YouTube channel, with sorting options.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/youtube/channels/shorts
- Price: $0.014/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/socialfetch-youtube-channel-shorts-lister-9a247f49
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_y-Frq9w5kilnyhbPfavtk

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability socialfetch-youtube-channel-shorts-lister-9a247f49
```

Example prompt: Show me the most popular YouTube Shorts from the channel with handle @mkbhd — sort by popular and grab the first page.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need YouTube Shorts (vertical short-form videos) from a channel, not long-form videos. Prefer this over general YouTube video listing when the use case is Shorts-focused content monitoring, creator analytics, or social media aggregation. Useful when you have either a channel ID or handle and need sortable, paginated results.

## Known failure modes

- Missing both channelId and handle returns an error — at least one identifier is required
- Invalid or non-existent channel ID or handle returns empty results or a 404-style error
- Invalid sortBy value (not 'latest' or 'popular') returns a validation error
- Expired or invalid pagination cursor returns an error or resets pagination
- Channel exists but has no Shorts returns an empty list
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance blocks the request

## How this service works

List Shorts from a YouTube channel (not long-form videos).

## Output

A list of YouTube Shorts from the specified channel, including video metadata (titles, IDs, thumbnails, view counts, etc.), sorted by latest or popular, with a pagination cursor for retrieving additional results.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "cursor": {
       "type": "string",
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Opaque pagination cursor returned by a previous response."
      },
      "handle": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional YouTube channel handle for the request."
      },
      "sortBy": {
       "enum": [
        "latest",
        "popular"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Optional sort order for the returned YouTube Shorts."
      },
      "channelId": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 4096,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Optional YouTube channel id for the request."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/socialfetch-youtube-channel-shorts-lister-9a247f49/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.socialfetch.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt)